Flynn&#x2019;s work as an arachnologist is interrupted by a teenager insisting he has stumbled across a new species. Having given in to the teen&#x2019;s hounding, Flynn realises he might be onto something.

So he treks into the mountains, his wife Steph and their faithful German shepherd Solomon in tow for a weekend of spider-hunting and tourism.

Instead, what Flynn uncovers rips their world apart.

The Isaac Spiders is the first of the Portal Novellas, and a debut novella from author Thomas Rose.